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  • That's it !

    The first round of legislative elections takes place this Sunday.

    About 48 million registered voters are called upon to elect their 577 representatives to the National Assembly for the next five years.

    More than 6,300 candidates are in the running.

  • Almost all polling institutes are considering the possibility that the Macronist alliance does not have an absolute majority.

    The president and his government would therefore no longer have a free hand.

    That this hypothesis is on the table is, in itself, a thunderclap, but abstention, given a record, could restore the advantage to the majority.

  • From 8 p.m., discover all the results of the first round of the 2022 legislative elections directly on 20minutes.fr.

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5 hours: Towards a new abstention record?

The closer the election approaches, the more the prognosis becomes clearer: after the relative upturn in the presidential election, the first round of legislative elections on Sunday risks recording a new record of abstention which could favor the Macronist majority.

According to the latest Ipsos Sopra-Steria survey for Cevipof, the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Le Monde published on Wednesday, abstention could reach between 52% and 56% on Sunday, with an average point of 54%, well beyond 51.3% on June 11, 2017, a previous record for a first round of legislative elections.

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4:57 a.m .: The “Recap”, legislative newspaper on video

Is the presidential majority in the process of dropping the ball, and its absolute majority in the National Assembly.

We are not there yet but the trend in the polls is clear: the more the days pass, the more the projections in seats for Together (the name of the Macronist coalition) tend to fall below the 289 seats necessary for the National Assembly.

The non-campaign of the president's camp seems to cost him, as well as the controversies that marked the beginnings of the Borne government.

Emmanuel Macron must wet the shirt to try to avoid a severe disappointment.

This is the first point of this 20th “Recap” of the 20 Minutes video campaign.

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4:51 a.m .: What power do deputies have?

Along with the Senate, the National Assembly holds the legislative power, that is to say, to make the law and control the government.

In the event of disagreement on a text of law with the upper house, currently dominated by the right, it is the deputies who have the last word.

Parliamentarians can table bills and amendments, and examine government bills.

They control the action of the government through oral or written questions, commissions of inquiry or missions of information.

MEPs are also responsible for evaluating public policies.

Main weapon in the hands of deputies, the motion of censure against the government is subject to very specific rules.

To bring down the government, it must be passed by an absolute majority, by at least 289 votes.

4:42 am: How do legislative elections work?

Legislative elections are national but are held in 577 constituencies.

Each deputy is thus elected there by the uninominal majority ballot in two rounds, used since 1958. The only exception: the legislative elections of 1986, when François Mitterrand had chosen full proportional representation to limit the announced victory of the right, even if it meant bringing in 35 FN deputies in the Assembly.

If on Sunday none of the candidates exceeds 50% of the votes in the first round, the two who came first will automatically qualify for the second round on June 19.

And those who exceed 12.5% ​​of registered voters – even in third or fourth position – will be able to maintain themselves.

But the latter case will be rare, given the levels of abstention announced, above 50%.

In the second round, the one who wins the most votes will be elected.

This voting method "reproduces the logic of the presidential election and amplifies its result", allowing the Head of State to have free rein to carry out his reforms, underline the jurist Benjamin Morel and Chloé Ridel, of the association Vote better, in a recent forum at La Croix.

But it “is a big part of democratic frustration and the crisis of representativeness”.

4h37: What cohabitations has France experienced since 1986?

The cohabitation between a President of the Republic and a Prime Minister from opposite sides took place three times under the Fifth Republic, sometimes marked by serious upheavals, but without causing a major crisis.

1986-1988:

François Mitterrand is forced to live with Jacques Chirac.

He declares to let the right-wing government “determine and lead the policy of the nation”, in accordance with article 20 of the Constitution.

But he openly criticizes the choices and mistakes of Matignon, rising up in opposition from the Elysée and ensuring re-election hands down in 1988.

1993-1995:

Rebelote in 1993 for François Mitterrand.

Edouard Balladur becomes head of government, with an overwhelming parliamentary majority.

The cohabitation is no less “courteous”.

Some will even speak of “velvet cohabitation”.

1997-2002:

A stroke of fate, elected Jacques Chirac is forced to live with the left after having dissolved the National Assembly on a bad calculation.

Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister and the President opts for "a constructive cohabitation".

The two politicians manage to save face internationally even if tensions enamel these five years of power sharing.

Hello everyone !

Welcome to this new live from the editorial staff of 20 Minutes devoted to the 2022 legislative elections. Today, Sunday June 12, it is (finally) the first round of the elections.

About 48 million registered voters are called upon to elect their 577 representatives to the National Assembly.

These legislative elections are perhaps the most thrilling for twenty-five years.

Ok, it may not have been seen much during the campaign but, for the first time, almost all the polling institutes are considering the possibility that the Macronist alliance does not have an absolute majority.

The president and his government would therefore no longer have a free hand... Stay connected with us until 8 p.m. and after to find out the first results and savor our analysis.

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